Using Sony DRX-710UL DVD/CD RW DL Drive with my iMac

Please, god please, if anyone can please help me utililize this new Sony external optical drive I got from my sister I would seriously appreciate it. I have hooked it up via firewire and my iMac can acknowledge discs put in it and their icons appear on my desktop so it seems there is hope. I put in a DVD today that had a couple hundred mp3 files on it and I dragged the dvd icon over the iTunes and dropped them in. The drive then began to hum like normal and the iTunes did all the normal stuff as if I was using my own built-in optical scanner but at the end of the process I got a crappy error message and I checked and not one file had successfully copied over! I am way out of cash so I really need to make this thing work for me. Incidentally, the built in scanner burnt out/died last week which is why I am now trying to make this work.

Okay, I'll try it tomorrow. But in your estimation, will this drive be able to replace my dead internal drive? I know that a more modern external optical drive would work better with my computer but this one was free just sitting, never used, new in the box in my sister's garage and I got no money right now but with tons off stuff to get done that will involve a functioning drive.

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